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First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of WarFirst Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
Lost for more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist George Weller’s legendary dispatches from post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki were discovered after his death by his son, Anthony Weller. Here, this historic body of work is published for the first time.... More Related posts:
  1. A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai-Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb
  2. Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
  3. Women and Women’s Issues in Post World War II Japan (Dimensions of Contemporary Japan)
A Plague upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare OperationA Plague upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation
In wartime Japan's bid for conquest, humanity suffered through one of its darkest hours, as a hidden genocide took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Cloaked in secrecy and protected under the banner of scientific study, the best and brightest of Japan's medical establishment volunteered for a major initiative in support of the military that... More Related posts:
  1. A Plague upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan’s Biological Warfare Program
  2. Operation Broken Reed: Truman’s Secret North Korean Spy Mission That Averted World War III
  3. The Emperor’s Codes: The Breaking of Japan’s Secret Ciphers
Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific (Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific)Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific (Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific)
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what had once been a bilateral and relatively exclusive relationship has been transformed in the past two decades. The authors present eleven case studies of important... More Related posts:
  1. Women and Women’s Issues in Post World War II Japan (Dimensions of Contemporary Japan)
  2. Sino-Japanese Relations: Facing the Past, Looking to the Future? (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies)
  3. The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)Democracy in Occupied Japan: The U.S. Occupation and Japanese Politics and Society (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes – democracy and the interplay of US-initiated... More Related posts:
  1. The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory (Routledge Studies in Asia’s Transformations)
  2. Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
  3. Society and the State in Interwar Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)
Seppuku: A History of Samurai SuicideSeppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide
This astonishing book charts the history and practice of ritual samurai suicide from ancient times until the 20th century through primary sources, both literary and historical, many of them never before translated into English. The author has worked from documents such as medieval war tales, records of the samurai domains, and execution handbooks. The book benefits from an extensive... More Related posts:
  1. Kamikaze: Japan’s Suicide Samurai (Cmp)
  2. A Brief History of the Samurai (Brief History (Running Press))
  3. Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The Phantom Samurai (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War IIYokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II
Yokohama Burning is the story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the earthquakes, fires, and tsunamis of September 1923 that destroyed Yokohama and most of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people during two days of horror. With cinematic vividness and from multiple perspectives, acclaimed Newsweek correspondent Joshua Hammer... More Related posts:
  1. Oil, Fire, and Fate; The Sinking of the USS Mississinewa (AO-59) in WWII by Japan’s Secret Weapon
  2. The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track
  3. A Dimly Burning Wick, Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima
RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan: 1931-1945 (Routledge Library Editions: Japan) (Volume 31)RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan: 1931-1945 (Routledge Library Editions: Japan) (Volume 31)
When this book was published in Japanese in 1982 it was awarded the prestigious Jiro Osaragi Prize. It is an important contribution to the understanding of the mental and spiritual world of Japan just over two generations ago. The author argues that just as the period of isolation up to the middle of the 19th century was crucial for Japan’s development, so the Second World War represented... More Related posts:
  1. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): A Cultural History of Postwar Japan: 1945-1980 (Routledge Library Editions) (Volume 30)
  2. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire (Routledge Library Editions) (Volume 15)
  3. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): The Case of Korea (Routledge Library Editions: Japan) (Volume 10)
Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)Nisei Memories: My Parents Talk about the War Years (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
"Nisei Memories" is an extraordinarily moving account of two second-generation Japanese Americans who were demonized as threats to national security during World War II. Based on Paul Takemoto's interviews with his parents, in which they finally divulge their past, "Nisei Memories" follows their lives before, during, and after the war - his... More Related posts:
  1. Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)
  2. The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society, 1931-33 (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)
  3. Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950-75 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
The Unveiled EastThe Unveiled East
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1907 edition by Hutchinson & Co., London. List Price: $17.99*Buy New: $17.99FREE Super Saver Shipping (Details)Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours1 new 1 used Offers available from $17.99 * as of Monday January 30, 2012 15:18:37, UTC Product information Author: ... More Related posts:
  1. Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empires 2,600th Anniversary (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute) (Studies of … East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
  2. Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II
  3. Pirate of the Far East: 811-1639 (Warrior)
Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and EuropeJapan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe
In 1871 Japan sent a high-ranking delegation to the USA and Europe, to negotiate treaties and trading agreements and to investigate how it might modernise its political and economic institutions. Led by the Foreign Minister Prince Tomomi Iwakura, the 'embassy' of politicians, courtiers and officials travelled... More Related posts:
  1. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 – 1830 (Routledge Library Editions: Japan) (Volume 16)
  2. Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan (Modern War Studies)
  3. The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943: Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal